It’s long been known that childhood sets a large part of the blueprint for the rest of our lives. But new research suggests something even more specific than that – events during our first 1,000 days, from conception to age two, make us who we are.
The new book, What Makes a Person: Secrets of Our First 1,000 Days, outlines some surprising discoveries that show what happens in the period after conception and birth, and explains how we control our bodies through processes that go way beyond just the genes we inherit.
